Green Country Gardener 8-9-25

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:01):
Good morning, and welcome to the Green Country Gardener program
right here on K one. Hey, I'm fourteen hundred, FM
ninety three point three and FM ninety five point one.

Speaker 2 (00:12):
The Green Country Gardner Program with our.

Speaker 1 (00:14):
Expert Larry Glass, is brought to you by green Plum
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Speaker 2 (00:37):
And good morning, Welcome to Green Country Gardener on this Saturday,
August the ninth, Nathan Thompson in studio with our gardening
expert Larry Glass. And we have open lines right now
right here on K one as well as on k GGF.
He and give us a call nine and eight three
three six fourteen hundred nine eight three three six fourteen

(00:59):
hundred for anything gardening, landscaping. Heck, we might even give
you some personal advice. You never know what we might
do around here.

Speaker 3 (01:06):
I need little advice on getting my watch cleared up
so I can see it.

Speaker 2 (01:12):
We'll buy a new watch. There you go.

Speaker 3 (01:15):
What a concept. Usually I don't buy anything. Took quits, yeah, exactly.
Digging around in the dirt so much barely see the thing.
But anyway, Yeah, good morning, Larry. How you been Hey
pretty good, good, nice hot weather. I just love this heat. Yeah,
thank you, you do.

Speaker 4 (01:32):
You do love this heat.

Speaker 3 (01:34):
You guys are doing great job with it with the weather.

Speaker 2 (01:36):
Oh hey, you know anytime. Well, we have some rain
chances coming up as well in the forecast.

Speaker 3 (01:42):
Hey, it's Oklahoma and it's August.

Speaker 2 (01:44):
Expect Oklahoma, Kansas, and everybody loves to blame the weather guy. Know,
I'll be more than happy to take that blame.

Speaker 3 (01:50):
This would be a good time to be a weather man. Yes,
you can take a vacation and basically, yeah, are just
calling from Tahiti.

Speaker 2 (01:58):
Our partner sent the News on six. Yeah, exactly, our
partners in News on six. They have been rotating here
over the past couple of weeks.

Speaker 3 (02:06):
I noticed that, Yeah, yeah, so who are these people?

Speaker 2 (02:09):
Exactly? So Stephen Narren's has been on in the morning
instead of Alan Crone and I was on in the
evenings and said Travis Meyer. So it's been fun.

Speaker 3 (02:17):
They get to sleep in.

Speaker 2 (02:19):
Absolutely Well, what should we be doing again? We have
heat advisories and effect here for probably today and tomorrow.
I'm assuming as well. You know, we have heated next
values you know, anywhere one hundred and five and ten
in the forecast. So you know, I think the last
thing people are thinking about doing right now is working

(02:39):
in their guard.

Speaker 3 (02:41):
Here are the things you need they need to do
in the garden right now.

Speaker 4 (02:43):
Yep, there you go, crickets. Sure, I wish I had
that sound here.

Speaker 2 (02:52):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (02:52):
So it'll it'll be fall pretty soon. Yeah, in about
thirty days. So, and what happens when fall comes in,
It cools down a little bit. You get them old
pesty winter weeds coming in the hand bit and the
chick weed and all the junk. It gets into your
beds and plugs them all up. So you might consider
doing a little bit of pre emergent stuff at least
think about getting it at this point, because god, I

(03:14):
think they're going to come in double barrel this year.

Speaker 4 (03:17):
Yeah, just because it would be a wet year.

Speaker 3 (03:21):
Yeah, wet spring. Yeah, there's so much proliferation of weeds
in the yard and the garden at that point. This
is pretty smart. They just quit and they just got
the little seeds around and then it cools down in
the fall and you got them all over the place. Again,
so you have a ground floor opportunity right now to
at least at this point in time, think about doing

(03:43):
something about that. Now, there are ways to control weeds.
You can throw all these chemicals around everywhere, or you
can use some mulch. Mulch is a good way. It
also helps control weeds and it also helps prevent a
vapor of water loss too. When we plant trees, typically
we put the moult around them. And we did a
big old project and we put got most around the trees.

(04:07):
And even though it's dry, its moist down there. So
it does an awful lot to conserve moisture. And it's
worth the investment because water is a bit pricing anymore.
It is it is, so you might consider mulching also too.
And when you do water water properly, and what exactly
you must be proper.

Speaker 2 (04:27):
Holding holding a cup of tea while you're what are
we talking about?

Speaker 5 (04:31):
Yea?

Speaker 3 (04:32):
The best thing I tell people, well, when you water water, uh,
you know, around eight o'clock in the morning. The primary
reason is when the sun shines on that hose, the
water gets rather hot. That's very true, and it can
cause some issues. Don't come home from work, Oh God,
I forgot the water, my plants turn on and next
thing you know, you got wilted broccoli in your yard,

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so to speak. And that what what the what the
heat does is it kind of scorch. There's the roots
and also the droots that are close to the surface,
the big anchoring roots and the story drips, and they
also transmit water up to there. It damages the tissue
in there and they can no longer provide moisture to
the top because they've been scorched. So it's always very

(05:18):
important if you do have to water on the option,
let the hose run for a bit, put it on
the driveway and watch a crack from the heat. But
you do want cool water coming out, and also you
want to water fairly deep, in other words, a little
bit on the surface it just doesn't do any good.

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So if you have a little spray sprinkler or something,
you might put it on there, then go inside about
an hour later, come back out and then turn it off.
So you need to get some moisture out way from
the plant so the roots will grow out and exploit
that area. If you put that on a diet of
junk water, you that is right close to the plant,

(06:04):
it won't venture out to the area to draw up
the water. So for instance, if you have a tree
a tree plant it's been in say a year or so,
you might want to put a spray sprinkl on it
that does really fairly large area as opposed to a
specific application of water. And then again the roots will
take it up out there and they'll continue to grow

(06:25):
out in that area and after a while you can
wean it away from that excessive water consumption once.

Speaker 2 (06:32):
It gets bigger.

Speaker 3 (06:33):
So yeah, so so try not to be too too
kind to them. You want to let the roots grow out.
And if there's no incentive for them to grow in
other words, if it's really bone dry just two feet
out from the tree you planted, it's really not going
to go out. It's not going to be able tolerate
our variations and moisture and so on. So I go

(06:53):
throw watering, you know, if you just plant it this year, yeah,
you don't want to do it very close, but that's
as the time progresses, you want to go further out
with your irrigation. Get one of the little sprinters on
the skid, you know. And also you don't have to
water every day or every other day or every third day.

(07:14):
Typically when a tree is established for about a year,
maybe once a week, so you really need to do
just set the sprinter, go in the house for an
hour and turn it off and that should be enough
for an entire week. You don't need to water every
single day. Our soil has a pretty high clay content
for the most part, and it does a very good
job of storing water.

Speaker 2 (07:34):
It does, but it does a terrible job.

Speaker 3 (07:36):
Of getting water back into it. We we love our
soil around it, be that as it may. Anyway, other
things to do in the garden now, fertilize only when
the moisture levels are good in the soil and your grass. Specifically,
a fertilizer works through what we call diffusion. Right you

(08:00):
put it on the ground, it follows the water train
going down into the garden, into the garden and all that.
So I always recommend this fertilize before you this water
rather before your fertilize, and then put your fertilizer down
and then water again afterwards, so the salts in there
can dissolve and go down and the soil down deep
wort it needs to go. You do want deep roots

(08:23):
on your on your grass, especially if fescue grass. At
this point, right you want something, but you don't want
to fertilize your festcu grass. No, it's dormant basically right now.
But anyway, exactly your's relations your ermino grass. You do
want some deep roots. And I have a bermuina grass
in my yard and I don't irrigate it, and I
can tell where the rocks are too.

Speaker 2 (08:41):
There.

Speaker 3 (08:41):
Of course it's brown a little, and you give me
your crow bar and dig them up. But some parts
of the yard it looks really good. Some parts of
the yard that it does not. So probably twenty five
years ago probably should have just dug them.

Speaker 4 (08:54):
Up at that point, maybe so maybe so.

Speaker 3 (08:58):
It'll probably be nine years old before I have a
chance to do right right anyway.

Speaker 2 (09:03):
Well, the other thing about fertilizer as well that I
have learned is that if you just put fertilizer down,
you don't do a good watering beforehand or that follow
up afterwards, especially in these very very hot temperatures that
can actually damage your plant.

Speaker 3 (09:21):
It can't, it burns, it will burn them, yeh. Fertilizer
is a salt, yes, that's right. AsSalt and batteries.

Speaker 2 (09:33):
Yeah, I made the mistake. When I was watering a
couple of hanging plants of mine, put some miracle grow
You know that. That's the ones that come in the
little packets that you put into your watering can. And
you know, if you follow the directions down there says
do it every seven to ten days or seven to fourteen.
I did it the first round. I did it every

(09:54):
after seven days after a week, right, and it burned
my plants up.

Speaker 3 (09:59):
The last thing that is to do a very weak solution.
I use that every time the water.

Speaker 2 (10:04):
Yeah, yeah, I thought I had a I have a
three gallon water can. Is what I have is a
three gallon one. So I put three of the little
things of the miracle grow in there. Right, I think
that's exactly what I'm supposed to do.

Speaker 3 (10:15):
We have we have a little device at the nursery
called a siphon X. Yeah it comes in handy at
the gas station, but no, no, really. It takes a
concentrated fertilizer mixture and it injects it into the water
as you water. So it's very efficient really, and you

(10:38):
what you do. It has like a fourteen to one
ratio or something. Like that kind of like you know,
carburetor your fuel. But anyway, it has a certain ratio
on it, and then you mix your stuff a little
stronger and then you just water around everywhere with the
siphon X. It's really really a clever tool to use
in your garden that autumn actically mixes a fertilizer for you.

Speaker 2 (11:03):
That's you've sold me on it.

Speaker 3 (11:05):
So then then you just water all your plants and
strudgure and then it's done.

Speaker 2 (11:08):
Absolutely.

Speaker 3 (11:09):
You don't have to mix up a bucket and poured
on it. Oh my god, i'spiled it.

Speaker 6 (11:12):
You have to do that.

Speaker 3 (11:13):
It just it just irrigates with it. And it's a
good and we use these at the nursery all the time. Yeah,
as at the siphon X, because it does make a
very efficient use of your fertilizer and it also proportions
it out properly. You have to do a little bit
of math though, to get it to work properly.

Speaker 4 (11:28):
Well.

Speaker 2 (11:29):
Four out of my five hanging baskets that I have
in my house they survived that squore thing.

Speaker 4 (11:35):
One of them did not. It just dried it completely.

Speaker 3 (11:38):
I have a fern basket in the backyard. Of course
it's watered automatically electronically, but anyway, of course, of course
I have a family of cardinals in it though, so
it's gonna be fun.

Speaker 2 (11:51):
And it's going to be fun.

Speaker 3 (11:53):
Cardinal ets flying around.

Speaker 2 (11:54):
Cardinal lets. I love it. I love it. But when
do we get back from our first two minute time
out here? Larry will continue talking about what to be
doing in the garden. Now Here in the mid part
of August or early part of August, I should say,
and walsonont lawns, trees, all of that great stuff. Stay
tuned War of Green Country gardener here after this two
minute break.

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Speaker 2 (14:40):
Welcome back to your Green Country gardener here on this Saturday.
I'm Nathan Thompson in studio with our gardening professional, our
landscaping expert, the man of the hour, Larry Glass. And
if you have calls or questions about gardening or what
you should be doing any of the yards right now,
give us a call nine one eight three three six
fourteen nine three six fourteen hundred. During the break, I

(15:03):
was showing h Larry some of my own HANDI work.
You know, I talked about the one petunia that I
just completely until he burned up. But the other ones,
the other ones are that's good.

Speaker 3 (15:14):
Yeah, Yeah, you're very healthy, you're hired. I need you
on the landscape.

Speaker 2 (15:20):
Well you know, I appreciate that. I appreciate that.

Speaker 3 (15:23):
And okay, anyway, back goes hard. Now, Yes, pruning, you
might want to cut a few things back here and there,
but keep in mind what these plants do. If you
have something that blooms in the spring, you want to
kind of not cut it back at this point. You
got those back in April and may things like dog

(15:43):
woods if I burn them, and hydranges and things like that,
you want to avoid pruning them at this point unless
are really just kind of obnoxiously in the way. But
so you want to refrain from pooning pruning rather dog
woods for scithy alias and some of the hydrangees because

(16:04):
they're going to set their booms for the next spring.
So if it blooms in the spring, you want to
refrain from cutting it back because right now, as the
days gets shorter, it causes a hormone change in the plant,
and the adventitious tissues on the tip of the branch
differentiate into blossoms. Well there you go, and then they

(16:26):
sit there and because it takes so long to produce
a bloom, to make a bloom, they have to go
back to this time of year to form those and
get the genetics whatever altogether on the differentiation together, so
they'll bloom out properly. So trying not to cut back
your dog with right now. They missed the boat for Scythia,

(16:50):
the same thing blooming, all these flowering quints, all these
spring blooming things. You want to refrain from cutting them back.
A lot of things which steriot, especially with steria. I
had somebody come, Interia never blooms. What's wrong with it?
She said, I cut it back every fall, And I said, bingo.

Speaker 4 (17:12):
Bingo, you're you're your own worst enemy.

Speaker 2 (17:17):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (17:18):
Now Clematis is a little different story. Clemata blooms on
new wood in the spring that forms us flowers in
the spring that blooms out. So if you have one
that's a little heavy on the top, you can cut
it back and then lit'll do just find a little
differentiate as as the leaves and stems emerge in the
spring again, we'll go ahead and produce flowers on new

(17:39):
wood if you will. So there are some things that
do and some things that don't. A lot of your
perennials if you can cut it back now, because they
haven't set their blooms.

Speaker 2 (17:47):
Yet, right, good advice, Good advice.

Speaker 3 (17:50):
Okay, cool tree damage. I know we had some some
storms this year.

Speaker 2 (17:55):
No, no, we didn't.

Speaker 3 (17:57):
I'm guilty of that. I have maple tree with some
busted up branches in it. But yeah, I come home,
I cook. Yeah.

Speaker 2 (18:11):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (18:11):
So anyway, you have to kind of maybe trim them
up a little bit, and uh, they really won't heal
up until next the next spring. But you don't want
those raggedy edges on there because that's not good for
the plants. They can't heal over over that, and you're
inviting diseases and insects and whatnot in there. So try
to cut it square. And when you do cut a

(18:31):
branch off of a tree, don't leave a stub. Get
it just an eighth of an inch away from the
from the from the main trunk, so that way there
the tissues are on there will encapsulate that real quickly.
I did that on one of my maple trees when
I moved into things hanging out way over the street.

(18:52):
So I cut it off and gave it a little
bit of tip or on it, and it healed up
and in about two years it's completely cut it over.

Speaker 2 (19:00):
That's great. So that's great because you know, you do
see that sometimes when people do that, they'll get those
big huge knobs on the end.

Speaker 3 (19:08):
Yeah, they don't cut a flush, right, Are they going
to hang their laundry on something else?

Speaker 2 (19:15):
Maybe?

Speaker 3 (19:15):
Maybe, But you do want to go ahead and cut it.
It's close to flush to the trunk, but you do
want it out just a little bit because if you
look at the tissue around where the stem comes out,
it's kind of wrinkly and a lot of growth occurs
right there, and that way it'll heal in and cover
that up pretty quickly.

Speaker 4 (19:36):
That's that's a great tip. That's a great tip.

Speaker 3 (19:38):
So as far as trees are concerned, a fall fertilization
will be up pretty soon. You really don't want to
fertilize too much this time of year because they might
growth spurt and in the heat that'll let's you know,
call some leaf sports and so on. So you want
to kind of cut back on fertilizing right now. We
don't like to do that till say September, which is
just next month.

Speaker 2 (19:58):
Yea next month.

Speaker 3 (20:01):
Keep an eye on the weather because if it's going
to be really hot and dry. You when you do
fertilizer tree, you don't want to so it goes into
the ground. What we talked about earlier about diffusion, It
has diffuse into the ground. And and this, this is
this microphone is a tree. Right there in the bases
is a trunk and you want to fertilize it out

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here at what we call the drip line. Right there,
there's a branch coming up. There's a drip line, so
it comes out around there. And uh, the roots that
are close to the tree are used primarily for support
and water storage and so on. But out away fe
roots out there because they're out of the drip line

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and they get more water out there because the tree
tends a hole a lot. Yes, we as a species,
we instinctively go towards the tree when it rains.

Speaker 6 (20:53):
We do.

Speaker 3 (20:55):
That's because we don't get as wet. If we're out there,
then lightning hits, but we don't.

Speaker 2 (21:00):
We don't want to hear that. We don't want to
hear that.

Speaker 3 (21:02):
So that's the reason why all the feed roots are
out of way, because they get a bit more quick
water that way.

Speaker 2 (21:08):
Okay, now what about moms. Now I've gone to around
to some of the big box stores and all of that,
and I'm starting to see.

Speaker 3 (21:16):
It's too early. Yeah, they're not a heat but they
don't know.

Speaker 2 (21:21):
They're not heat tolerance at all.

Speaker 3 (21:22):
You put them on the ground.

Speaker 12 (21:25):
Like that.

Speaker 3 (21:26):
All the roots are right there in that one little pot,
and uh, it's difficult to water, I guess once they're
in the ground for some odd reasons that people can't
water like that. But you almost have to put a
drip system on them to get it to work because
all the roots are just right there, and when it
gets really hot like this and maybe a little bit windy,

(21:47):
they can use up all that water real quick in
that root mass and then they die out from black
of the water. So the plants, then the roots. It
works kind of like a a capillary tube if you're
familiar with that, and it's drawn up through that and
the leaves have little openings in them called stillmata. And

(22:12):
when it's when it's when the moishes are open their clothes,
when they get a little bit dry, these to open
up and it permits water to evaporate out of the
lead to keep it cool, and it let's draw up
through the through the diffusion listed water draw up into
the plant. There you go plant the plant, anatomy and stuff.

Speaker 2 (22:31):
Absolutely my freshman year.

Speaker 3 (22:37):
Anyway. So that's that's that's how basually how they keep
themselves cool as these little openings that the water through.

Speaker 2 (22:44):
There's a we're.

Speaker 3 (22:45):
Doing a project in Osage County and all the way
over there there's a tree tunnel. It's short, about a
quarter mile long. YEA, love that, and it's easially ten
degrees coover, yes, underneath that, and it is out in
the open trees are So that's that evaporation and cooling
down of the trees in full action right there right.

Speaker 2 (23:07):
It does work. It does work. Well. We are up
on our next two minute break here, a little bit
late on it, in fact, sorry about that.

Speaker 4 (23:15):
Anyway, we'll get to talk and then that kind of happens.

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It's fine. Well, we'll take a two minute time out
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Let's me talk about a yes, a native species we
have here.

Speaker 4 (25:45):
We have to bag world, you know, Larry, They are
all over my peconetry.

Speaker 3 (25:53):
I get those ten caterpillars. Oh okay, different, come on,
get us straight? But oh sorry, sorry, anyway, bagworms are
these little things that hang down from your juniperson all that.
Oh yes, okay, and pretty much at this point in time,
Barty done their damage. So it's kind of a water

(26:14):
under the bridge. However, you could be proactive on I
think we discussed some past shows, but anyway, have you
can use BT works very effectively. It also BT works
very well on insects in the larval stage. Now there
was one thing you want to watch out for. Look
very carefully at the caterpillars whatever that you're knocking out,

(26:38):
because the monarch butterfly caterpillar is also susceptible to this stuff,
so you have to be very careful with that. Another
product we use for bagworms is a Catjack's Dead bug.

Speaker 4 (26:52):
I like that.

Speaker 3 (26:54):
Basically it's a spinner's ad and it works very effectively
against pretty much all insects. And another thing you want
to look out for bug wise this year or this
time of year, or scale insects on your crate myrtles.
There are a little tiny little insect that attaches itself

(27:15):
to the stem. We've talked about this over and.

Speaker 2 (27:17):
Over, Yeah, we have.

Speaker 3 (27:19):
And I went to a house and it was just
absolutely covered with them. The stems were black and the
things the plant looked at me and I told her
how to how to get rid of those. CJDB works
very well. Did bug.

Speaker 2 (27:33):
I love it? I love that name. I love it well.

Speaker 3 (27:36):
I actually it spin its a It's very safe for
mammals because it doesn't affect our nervous system, but it
does on the insects. It stops this synaptic business going
on with them. So, uh, if you do have some
scale in your crate myrtles, you can use that right now,
and then next year you might consider using amid of cloprid,

(27:59):
which a say systemic nicotinoid, and it'll be drawn up
into the plant and it'll stop them there before it happens.
So do that and let's say March April. Let it
get up into the plant before all this stuff happens.
And then if you do have some recurrence so that
the spin is ad worked very well afterwards.

Speaker 2 (28:19):
So good. Yeah.

Speaker 3 (28:22):
Absolutely. Another thing is a borers on your trees, real bad,
and the metacloprid is a very good h cure for that.
You can look on your maple trees, upon your oaks
or any other kind of tree like that, look on
the west and the southwest side of the tree specifically,
and if you do see some little holes in the

(28:43):
trunk or a flattening of the trunk. Tree trunks typically
are around like this microphone stand. Yes, but there's a
southwest side. If it's relatively flat on the south side,
you've had some bor activity in there, so you want
to address that as well. So the typically I like
to use the UH. I used to use disistin on it,

(29:05):
very effective, but to cut off the market. Yeah, so yeah,
these the amit of copid right now and it does
a pretty good job.

Speaker 4 (29:13):
And is that is that actually applied directly onto the
tree or is.

Speaker 3 (29:16):
It up in the bucket and UH at the base
of the tree or around the tree and then up
on the trunk and the tree draws it in and
it affects them that way. So fruit trees are very
susceptible to this UH, to boring insects and all that,
and now's the time to control them. So the effectiveness

(29:37):
will be diminished when it comes time for pollination in
the spring. So if you do have some fruit trees,
look on the west or the southwest side of the
tree and look for flat spots on the spots and
look for little tiny holes and so on, bleeding and whatnot.
And I'll tell you that you have borders. And when
it's really hot like this to be a real problem

(29:58):
because part of the connective tissue between the root and
the top of the tree is attenuated by these insects.
They pour, they eat, they is, They go after the
flowhaing layer, the flowing layer. You have your your epidermis,
which is the bark, your flowing, and then your the
wood in the middle, and that's where all the sugars

(30:19):
from the leaves go down into the riots. And these
are the little caterpillars. Just oh yeah, that's stuff up.

Speaker 2 (30:27):
Yeah, I've seen them. I'm not a fan of those
at all.

Speaker 4 (30:34):
Well I'm also not a fan of We have to
take another break.

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Oh yeah, go ahead, all right, So hey we got
we got to make the boss man happy.

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Two minute break.

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On the beach, in the water, in the sand, in
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Gardener Here on K one kg.

Speaker 2 (33:15):
Do you have Nathan Thompson, Larry Glassen here, we're talking cars.
We were talking cars.

Speaker 3 (33:21):
Carr got the old truck that came my old truck running.
I was under the hood of that thing yesterday exactly,
can tell me by my fingernails I was working on there.

Speaker 2 (33:30):
You go, well, let's give out get out our phone
number here again and I went eight three three six
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car questions, ask us garden questions please today We would
appreciate that.

Speaker 3 (33:41):
But if it's older than nineteen ninety, I can probably
answer the.

Speaker 2 (33:44):
Exactly exactly the ones. You know, people begin here now.
This year is a little bit different because we've had
so much rain right during the spring and early summer.
You know, normally, by this time of the year, on
yards that are not well irrigated, they begin to die out.
But that's not the case now. Still people are very

(34:06):
active and mowing and and getting you know, doing a
particular lawn care service to to what would sometimes be
getting close to not dormancy, but close to the end
of the cycle. Here, what should people be doing with
their lawns as far as h mower settings, those types
of things.

Speaker 3 (34:27):
Mower should be set on maximum at this point. Okay,
your blade should be extraordinarily sharp at this point too.
I know a lot of people neglect that you got there,
what are you doing my grass? And you look at
the grass at an angle and it looks kind of
shredded on this. I see this in some people's yards
and said, well, we have somebody come in and do it.
I said, sharpen your blades because the grass looks like

(34:49):
this instead of being like that kind of like webbed out,
it's kind of shredded out on the tips. So if
your grass, if your lawn, your your turf, grass looks
zois of grass for me to evescul it.

Speaker 12 (35:00):
Uh.

Speaker 3 (35:01):
If the tips don't look good and cleanly cut, chances
are you need to sharpen the blade. And there is
a way to do that. You only sharpen it on
the top edge. You don't go for the bottom edge.
You have to go from the top edge. So as
it goes around around the bottom, the sharp part of
the blade is flesh with the bottom of the the grass,

(35:22):
so it cuts rather cleanly that way. So if your
grass just doesn't look right, it just looks, you know,
a little kind of debtish on the surface.

Speaker 2 (35:29):
It's a little stubby.

Speaker 3 (35:31):
Yeah, and oh it's been I have sharpen my blade
in five years, you know, you might considered doing that
of having it done. And I do this to mine
quite a bit, and I have a little balancer thing
that balances balances the blade so if it tilts this way,
you're not a little bit off.

Speaker 2 (35:49):
Kind of like that. That's that's incredible. That's incredible because
you know there might be some some listeners right now
who are novices that they may not know how to sharpen.

Speaker 3 (35:59):
We only sharpen it typically a blade is tilted, the
tip is tilted. That's where the sharpness is. That's where
you cut it right there. And you don't really have
to get it razor sharp on the tip. Just get
it good and sharp because that edge, that razor edge
you put on there will blunt pretty quick. So you
want to have just a just a proper angle, about

(36:20):
thirty degree angle and it'll be just fine.

Speaker 2 (36:23):
There you go, and what do you do?

Speaker 3 (36:24):
Just use a file or what do you have a
bench grinder?

Speaker 2 (36:28):
Grinder? There you go even better, even better.

Speaker 3 (36:32):
Thirty years and you just grind them down. And then
it's important to balance it too, so the blade, the
motor doesn't shake, hold shaking going on. You know, keep
that vibration down a little bit. The motors will last
longer that way.

Speaker 2 (36:48):
Yeah, So what is the purpose of Once you have
a appropriate blade sharpness on your motor, you are setting
up to the maximum heights whenever you were mowing. What
do we what's the purpose of having it up at
the maximum height.

Speaker 3 (37:02):
It's more surface area on the on the on the
grass blade for evaporative cooling. We talked about the tree
tunnel and how cool it is over there, exactly kind
of worked the same thing on the grass. If you
have that that more surfacery, it's able to draw up
more water and keep itself cooler, so.

Speaker 2 (37:22):
You know, and then you have these other people, I e.
Me sometimes make the decision.

Speaker 4 (37:31):
To scalp my yard just so I don't have to
mow it as often.

Speaker 2 (37:37):
But of course, but I don't have good grass, Larry,
you know this.

Speaker 4 (37:39):
I have like crap grass and clover and and all
of that.

Speaker 2 (37:44):
Wonderful stuff in my yard. I don't have good fescue.
I don't have good bermuda.

Speaker 3 (37:49):
I just sounds like you just needed zing it all
and buy a palette of sod.

Speaker 4 (37:54):
I think, exactly, just get in there and just get
in with a backo and take it all out.

Speaker 3 (38:01):
Yeah, speaking of sod, it's a good it's a good
solution for along that's kind of misshape. And however, if
you put the sad down there and you do not
change your modus operandi as far as watering fertilizing, it's
going to go back to exactly the same way it was.
And a couple of years ago I was with a

(38:21):
customer and she said, all I want the whole front
yard side of it. I said, you've got permitiograss here,
And I printed off a sheet from the extension agent
showing when and how to fertilize and all that other
stuff too. I said, this is a lot less expensive
to use the grass. You have now to start fertilizing
it properly and moving it properly and watering it properly.

(38:43):
Then it would be to tear out perfect good grass
permutigrass and then put permutigrass down follow the same procedure.
In a year, you're going to be exactly the same place.

Speaker 4 (38:53):
Well, you know, isn't that the definition of insanity?

Speaker 2 (38:56):
Doing the same thing over and over and over again.

Speaker 3 (38:58):
Expecting necessarily insanity? It's uh laziness, sat instant gratification.

Speaker 2 (39:06):
There you go, there you go.

Speaker 3 (39:08):
So really I've had my lawn for it must be
thirty years old and nice grass on it.

Speaker 2 (39:18):
Right. Well, no, no, I didn't mean it that way.
I meant it that if you have somebody who has
a bad yard like I do, and then I sought
it and I just continued to do the same practice.
I'm going to end.

Speaker 3 (39:28):
Although come back, most people's laws have some permutographs in it.

Speaker 2 (39:32):
Yes, mine does. It does, okay, limited so but it
will grow. It will.

Speaker 3 (39:39):
And now, for the last three years previous to this,
it's been really really dry, and the bermutographs in my
yard was just about diminished. Yeah, I mean last year
it just looked awful. And this year we had all
the rain, it just filled in and it grew up, fertilized.
That when when the more show was good and it

(40:00):
grew together and filled it, it looks great.

Speaker 2 (40:02):
But you know, I'm gonna tell you my method, what
what I did last year, all right, because my method
is going to be great, all right. You know, I
had this huge, huge pecan tree in my in my
front yard, right and of course in the full time
it will drop all of those leaves, and so you're
always sitting there, you know, raking up the leaves. Well
I did, I kind of let I kind of waited
until all the leaves were down right, and then I

(40:25):
put all of my leaves in about six piles in
my yard and then forgot to pick them up and
gather them.

Speaker 4 (40:34):
So come springtime, I was like, oh, I need to
get those get.

Speaker 2 (40:38):
Those leaves off. And so I had these circular patterns
in my in my yard at the beginning of the spring.

Speaker 4 (40:46):
Yeah, and now that's all new grass. There's no no weeds,
nothing in that.

Speaker 2 (40:51):
So I'm just gonna that's what I'm gonna do next year.
I'm just gonna pick up my leaves. Okay, I'm kidding. Folks.
Don't take lawn gardening advice from me, No, please, don't
we joke around.

Speaker 3 (41:06):
The cons as a leaf decomposed the exotic acid. Yeah,
and that will lower the pH of your soil so
and that that'll some of the diminished coverage of the
lawn too. Yeah, chemistry is a bit off.

Speaker 2 (41:22):
Probably probably won't be The owner of the house is
a little bit off anyway.

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All right, take our final two minute break here on
Green Country Garden on K one and K g GM.

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Shortly after Charles Lindberg's transatlantic flight to Europe, the Dole
Pineapple Company sponsored a race from San Francisco to Honolulu
in nineteen twenty seven. Lindberg refused to fly in it,
noting he couldn't miss the continent of Europe, but he's
sure as heck could miss Hawaii. Frank Phillips saw the
race as a great opportunity to advertise his new Phillips

(42:34):
Aviation fuel. Frank found his pilot a Hollywood stunt pilot
by the name of Arthur Goebbels and named his plane
the Woollarock in honor of the ranch. Eight planes took
off from San Francisco on August sixteenth, nineteen twenty seven,
and only two planes finished the race. The flight took
over twenty six hours and the winner was the Woolarock.

(42:55):
Charles Lindbergh described it as the greatest event in air history.
For the next year, that plane barnstormed the country advertising
Philip's fuel and finally returned to Woolarock. Mister Phillips instructed
his staff to build a stone hanger for the airplane,
which they did, and he stored the plane there. As
he collected more and more art and artifacts, he stored

(43:16):
a lot of it in that hangar until he finally
had to enlarge it. Today, you know that airplane hangar
is the first room of the museum as you walk
out of the dome room. Next time you visit, remember
what that room's initial purpose was back in nineteen twenty eight.
That same airplane hangs proudly today in the museum at Wollarock,

(43:36):
where magic still happens every day. Welcome home to Wollarock.

Speaker 2 (43:51):
Welcome back, to Green Country Gardner on this Saturday, Nathan
Thompson in with Larry Glass. We just got done with
a segment about what not to do to your lawn
thanks to me anyway, So Larry, let's get into back
what we should be doing in our yard, in our
lawns as we begin the transition period from summer into fall.

Speaker 3 (44:10):
Well, the bermudograss typically just keep it, uh, you know,
water real well, and if it's not really dense, if
you fertilize it and it just simply just does not grow,
I would recommend getting a soil test done, okay, because
typically it is something chemically wrong with it, and it
could be the pH is too low or maybe even
too high. Okay, but there's some reason why it's not growing.

(44:33):
Because bermuda grass just loves it here, so you do
just fine. So well, they're kind of the same. Zoyser
grass is a little bit different. Zoys grass isn't as
heat tolerant as bermudograss, so you want to water, you know,
water it may be a bit more frequently than you
would bermutigrass. However, the zeyser grass growth so dense and

(44:54):
thick that it doesn't dry out as quickly as bermudi
grass my neighbor across the streets, absolute weed free lawn.
Beautiful thing. I think we did that work back in
the eighties, seventies or eighties, we did that lawn. Yeah,
and we just did some more work in the backyard.
And Zoysia grass too, And it's a really really good grass.

(45:15):
But be prepared to irrigate it just slightly more than
you would would permuted grass. But because of its density,
it does help retain water real well too. You can
overwater it also, well, I mean, and.

Speaker 2 (45:26):
That's kind of my question, Larry, is the overwatering aspect
because you know, well, in the mornings, whenever I'm on
my way here to the station, I take down Cherokee,
and you know all those houses on Cherokee have irrigation
systems everything, and they are watering every day.

Speaker 3 (45:46):
No, you don't do that.

Speaker 2 (45:47):
No, thank you.

Speaker 4 (45:49):
I appreciate you saying that, because why are they doing
that and we know it's not necessary.

Speaker 3 (45:54):
Well, then they have to put fungusides down all this
other stuff. So yeah, you want to let it dry
a little bit between water. He doesn't hurt it if
it gets just a little in the dry side and
water it real good. That helped keep the anaerobic soiled
under control, and it also helps your roots go down
deep so they have a long In other words, if

(46:16):
you water every day, your roots aart just right here,
maybe four inches deep. But if you irrigate less frequently,
let it dry a little bit between that altill going
to go down to try to find more water.

Speaker 2 (46:27):
It makes perfect sense to me.

Speaker 3 (46:29):
Take the time you're watering for that entire week on
every day, and do it twice a week. In other words,
if you're watering a total of you know, thirty minutes
during the course of a week, do two applications maybe
of an hour apart. Now, that might be too much
water at once for some soil to absorb, but the

(46:52):
timers typically have multiple start times on it. He started
at three am and then let it dry a little
bit five am. But you do need a drying period
in between, because grass just simply is not doesn't grow
in a swamp.

Speaker 2 (47:07):
That's that's true. That's true.

Speaker 3 (47:09):
Yeah, very important. Also, you fertilization is important too. Bermuda
grass likes a moderate to light application fertilizer on a
monthly basis and then water it in or use your
phone app to water that. We're doing a sprinker systems.
We're using the internet phones and I did that before.
Less all my yard in the backwards a little right

(47:31):
it starts.

Speaker 4 (47:34):
And I'm assuming you also have a zoned system too,
don't you.

Speaker 12 (47:38):
We like you?

Speaker 2 (47:39):
Yeah, different areas, yeah, different areas we can go in
in zone zone yeah.

Speaker 3 (47:43):
Now yeah, if you do have a sprinker system. There's
a lot of people don't even know what what does where?
Do a zone map? Yes, and just make a sketch
of your yard and then wherever circle number one goes,
just fill that in with some color and so on
and so on, so you know exactly where those areas are.
There's so many people.

Speaker 6 (48:02):
I don't know what it is.

Speaker 3 (48:03):
I just turn on having any idea how to do this.
And when we do an installation, we do provide a
zone map, so you know where Circuit five is.

Speaker 2 (48:18):
That's great.

Speaker 3 (48:18):
You have to have Mabel go right.

Speaker 6 (48:20):
Is it on yet?

Speaker 3 (48:22):
Is this number five over here there? Well?

Speaker 7 (48:24):
I don't know.

Speaker 3 (48:25):
I don't Oh there it is. You know that way
you'll have an idea.

Speaker 2 (48:30):
Not Mabel. You brought Mabel out today.

Speaker 3 (48:34):
Okay, Roof whatever the name may be, but it's good
to have that knowledge as to where this particular circuit runs.
And it's easy to make a map. You just draw
a little square where the house is, driveway in the

(48:54):
sidewalk and the property boundary, and then when you turn
it on to okay, here's my drawing. This is zone one.
So on. It just makes it more efficient when it
comes to troubleshooting a sprinkler system, and they can, they
can get in big trouble. They can anyway, come buy
the nursery. Feel Yes, we've got all kinds of perennials

(49:14):
right now, uh to look at, and some crape myrtles
even some purple leaf crape myrtles that are showing showing
some stuff beautiful. We're gearing up for fall already good
going growing stuff for the fall.

Speaker 2 (49:27):
I love it.

Speaker 3 (49:28):
We have all kinds of river rock and stuff and
boulders and everything else. So come by and check us
out there. We're on No Water Road, halfway between Madison
Boulevard and Washington Bilevard on the south side of the road.
And golly, keep your shovel sharp. We will see you
next week.

Speaker 2 (49:43):
And don't take a lot of advice from Nathan Thompson
A great day, folks,